The Republican journal., 1887-12-22
The Woman's Column.

\ Wonan> Exchange las just been opened
! in Colorado springs.
Wellesley has six hundred Students and has
to turn applicants AWAY.
The City Government Of Boston has voted
S,.10f To-: hi>t for the Ericsson statue by Miss
Aune " htncy.
Mrs. Emile Kempin is the first Swi>, lady
who a~ studied Jurisprudence. Her thesis re-
c'lNcd the highest commentator.
Miss Helen l.. smith. daughter of cx-Gov-
crnor smith, of Vermont, took the first prize at
The competitive cooking exhibition recently
! held ia -. lIiln>.
Mr<, sarah j. Hale. late editor Of Godey'S
l.a,iy'> Book. is said to have secured ihc nation
/ ;ti Observance OF Thanks giving Day. which was
At Iil>t rfelg a New England holiday.
The Philadelphia Grand jury wants TO have
the Wife-heatcr> of That city formed into a
! ehtin--an@. and set 10 sweep The streets. Th,
would be better than Furnishing the wiie-hcater
with iih", which The wife generally has to pay
III tn end.
france, " Hard >ay>:. am more tban ever
con} iacc, liat our women ought to rive leui>-
atare> no rest until they make generous appio-
priat!gn- Ior Girls industrial schools. no ether
single effort will ito more 10 solve the problem
of social purify"
Tie ladies OF icrre liautc. feeling indignant
II The con;'o Of The village ccll.cerv iSyt.nl-
hci tht either lay with -ickI,s. auh began cut
| ing oui the thi>tl"s Hnd weeds. The sexton
was a>hale,l hat he agreed to finish The
work if the WoUi;i leave or
Mis- Ilclpn N. >hafer, the new president Of
" cii">HE. is = graduate Of Dherlin and was
| for some wears engaged in school work at st.
| Louis. under Professor ". T. Harris She is
credited with uncommon executive ability
Miss Mice Freeman viii remain Oh the Board
| OF trustees.
Mrs. \. Hills. of Siowhegan Falls. Wis. is Il
,t'c'e1>inl hce-ketper. In three wears her stock
| has increased from Two colonies to fortv-onc.
Alil the surplus honey, after enough had been
>olifpP1N All costs, averaged eighty-tWo pounds
per rpomv She thinks that bcc-kecpng is a
good business for women.
| 'Tht minneapolis Woman, EXCHANGE ,,avs
twenty thousand dollars year into the hands
| oi needy women. who, without it, could pro-
| ta'ly earn almost nothing. One poor woman
ie'i 50 grateful that Size gave the Exchange the
ifcl lWeh'E-!i'" dollars she earned after she had
/! l'Ald IN . iAnr'4a~ on her little home
| Il~ie +, iiucknglam writes to the New York
| Evening Posi- of what has been done by women
| farmers III California She knows of one
W"liian Who. on ten acres Of land, supports a
! htlil OF five comfortably. with something to
| >iH'o Another woman She knows netted
| Sl"o from four acres iii nearil-trces in one
| >pH>nn.
The L"l : Of Commodore Matthew Gal
hlailh Perry, whose biography has Just been
| published, was remarkable woman. Twenty
sIN or more of the officers in the United STATES
| Navy Rcgi>tcr are descended from her. The
| heroes Of Japan and Lake Erie were trained by
| hrl TO WIN victories over themselves before sub
| 'Iuii3 Bfiton, and A>iaticS.
| Mrs. Stevenson. the wife of The famous
| novelist. Robert Louis Stevenson, is daughter
| OF Jacob Nandegrift, one of the pioneers of
Indianapolis. She is remembered in that city
a. a small ''ark-compicNioncd. pretty girl. very
| bright and. witlia. very fond of good novel.
Her first husband was Samuel Osborne, deputy
| clerk Of the supreme Court.
| The Protective Committee Of the Buffalo IN.
| w. Women's Educational and Industrial Union
| has collected nearly $4,000 owed to poor
women. at an expense of less than 800. 1t
| was mainly an aggregate of small amounts due
| To women Wage-rarners. The Union defends
| with the advice of the ablest lawyers. the rights
| of weak and frendesS women in whatever
direction they have been assailed.
Louisa Alcott, in answer to a recent question
about hermethod of writing. says IL have no
| special methods, except to use the simnlest
| language, take every day life and make if jntcr-
| esilng, and try to have my characters alive, I
| take many heroes and heroines from real life
as much truer than any can imagine" This
iSa good hlht Tor young authors who have been
|
1t j. becoming quite common for an i'm
neeinious socety-woman to go into trade.
There are half-a-doZen small arts in which her
connections are of distinct value. One such in
New York imports dainty bonnets, another
| paints toilet articles and menu cards, a third
does i'ne emhroiderics for fashionable baby
clothes, and fourth conducts a sort of private
brokerage in duplicate wedding presents.
Mrs. Elizabeth Colby, of Bingham, Me-, has
been appointed by Gov. BodwelI to solemnize
| marriages and take acknowledgements of deeds.
Mrs. Colby is the wife of a prosperous mer-
chant of Bingham, and is said to have rendered
great assistance to her husband by her counsel
and advice. She is about forty years of age,
has an excellent education and good common
sense. and will have no difficulty in performing
the duties of her office.
Mrs. }. n. Gushing. Secretary of the Womans
Baptist Foreign Missionary Society of Phadel-
phia. was for years "A commissioned captain in
the United States army, under full pay during
the war. and sent wcll-drilled and efficient
company to Col Higginson's regiment. Mrs.
Cushing was but twenty-one years of age when
she received her commission. The employment
of Il woman as captain seems extraordinary
but the fact is vouched for by IIarper's Bazar
which is generally good authority.